Ploy: Deployment Automation Tool

Command line tool for automating software deployments on multiple machines. Uses templates and replacement variables to generate machine specific configuration files, and provides a way to execute arbitrary Ruby code for deploying the artifacts on a server.

For usage instructions, see the comments in the files in the example directory. Run the example using the commands:

mvn clean verify
cd example
./run.sh

You may also download pre-built binaries.

Requires Maven 3 and Java 7 or higher. Includes JRuby in Ruby 1.9 mode.

Licensed under the MIT license.

Release Notes

Ploy 1.3.0 (2014-06-12)

• Added with_copied_artifact
• Added with_unzipped_artifact
• Renamed with_file to with_text_file
• Renamed with_webapp to with_repacked_war_artifact

Ploy 1.2.0 (2013-08-13)

• Can locate Maven 3's unique timestamped snapshots

Ploy 1.1.0 (2013-03-20)

• Created with_webapp that takes the path to the webapps directory as parameter. This replaces the old way of using with_artifact and specifying the webapps directory in .template.rb (#7)
• Can generate arbitrary files using with_file (#8)
• Retains the permission bits of files generated based on templates (#2)
• Better compatibility: doesn't anymore use the jar command for handling ZIP files, but uses Java's standard library
• Renamed the project to Ploy (#9)
• Upgraded to Java 7
• Upgraded to JRuby 1.7 (#5)

Ploy 1.0.0 (2012-10-18)

• Initial release